THE death of flight attendant Christine Dacera has opened a fresh can of worms on how the police can be extremely careless and irresponsible in handling criminal cases, particularly complicated ones.

The most glaring weakness in the system came from no less than Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Debold Sinas with his reckless pronouncement that the case was solved, based on initial evidence from which he drew the conclusion that the 23-year-old Dacera had been raped before she was killed.